More Points on Dubai and the "US" Ports

- The ports weren't U.S. owned to begin with. Are any of them?? So the national security argument may be valid but it isn't well-grounded... unless of course we conflate Arab-ness with security issues. And Lord knows we wouldn't want to do that, now would we?

- There are rumors re: Halliburton being the mysterious white knight of sorts...but that's not what worries me, said the Wicked Witch of the West...It's how these things get done. They mus tbe done.... delicately. Or you hurt the spell.

- what spell you ask? I'm glad you did - when's the last time you liked what you saw there. I mean really liked, not self-help section "self-affirmation" but really truly said "hey now, you're hot, life's good and ... damn, you're one sexy beast" or some such? been awhile right? of course it has - because our self-esteem, our way of life, life as we know it, life, the universe and everything are not-so-slowly and not-at-all-quietly being outsourced to places like India and China.
- and the spell of course is one of apathy and a stunted emotional affect...delivered via the best soul-sucker franchise out there, namely mainstream media and _TV_.
- Here's a quote from the NY Daily News about Halliburton's involvement in the Dubai compromise:

DP World honcho H. Edward Bilkey made it clear in a statement that "DP World will not suffer economic loss" by shedding the New York City Passenger Ship Terminal in the W. 50s and ports in Newark, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New Orleans and Miami.

So, said Rep. Vito Fossella (R-S.I.), "The fundamental question is this: Who are operations being transferred to?"

DP World did not say. And scratch Halliburton off the list.

Melissa Norcross, a spokeswoman for the controversial U.S. company once headed by Vice President Cheney, called suggestions circulating on the Hill that they might take over "false and baseless."

Now I'm not always the swiftest of souls to be sure, but I am clearly missing something here. What in that last brief quote from Norcross indicates that we can scratch Halliburton off the list, so to speak? This is a serious epidemic, namely, journalists taking corporation assertions as Gospel According to The Flying Spaghetti Monster...or at least gospel anyway.